St. Peter’s with skip the line
Highlights
Visit the St. Peter’s Basilica with priority entrance. You will skip the endless lines and be accompanied by our assistant inside the church, where an official guide awaits you for a tour of the Vatican.
You will admire the masterpieces of Michelangelo, Bernini and Canova and discover the fascinating history of the Basilica thanks to the curiosities and information provided by the guide.
Treat yourself to the unique experience of visiting the St. Peter’s Basilica with an official Vatican guide, who will provide you with information and details that will help you understand all the beauties of the church that is the symbol of Christianity in the whole world. Choose our St. Peter’s with skip the line tour!
We offer you a tour of the Vatican without hours of waiting in the heat. A real must on any respectable guide to the best things to do and visit in Rome.
Thanks to the priority access service, you can skip the endless lines of tourists at the entrance in both winter and summer. One of our assistants will escort you inside the Basilica, after passing the required security controls.
To enjoy this service of the St. Peter’s with skip the line tour you must book one of the dedicated tours in Rome (Classical or Panoramic Tour of Rome, Rome on your own transfer) and buy the ticket for the Basilica directly on board the bus or on our website.
Our assistant will accompany you towards the St. Peter’s Basilica by walking along a part of the Gianlorenzo Bernini’s colonnade surrounding St. Peter’s Square, consisting in 284 columns and 88 pillars.
Once inside you can admire La Pietà, considered as the absolute masterpiece of Michelangelo, and the famous bronze canopy by Bernini. The canopy, 29 meters high and composed of four spiral columns, is located right in the center of the Basilica. Inside there is a golden dove, while the lower floor is the tomb of St. Peter.
You will not even miss the funeral monument of Clement XIII sculpted by Antonio Canova and the Altar of the Chair by Bernini, with the wooden throne donated by Charles the Bald in 875.
The visit offered by our St. Peter’s with skip the line tour lasts about 40/45 minutes and includes a minimum number of 5 participants, so that you can have the Vatican guide available. In case of smaller number of participants, you can take the audio guide. In any case, one of the best places to visit in Rome we are sure you will love as much as we do!
Saint Peter’s Church priority entrance and guided visit ticket:
- Adults: 22 €
- Free: children (0 – 5 yo)
SERVICE NOTICE: Unavailable until further notice based on new Vatican regulations that currently do not allow advance entry reservations.Dress code for the entrance to St. Peter’s Basilica without queuing up: given the sacred nature of the place, women must have arms and knees covered while men must wear t- shirt and have covered knees.
Prohibited objects: metal and/or dangerous objects, such as knives, may not be brought into the Basilica.
Opening hours and days: by order of the Vatican the priority entrance service is suspended on Sundays, holidays and in some cases on Wednesdays.
For those who buy the priority entrance ticket in combination with our Classical or Panoramic tour of Rome, the service is also available on Wednesday afternoons: the purchase of the priority entrance may result in changes in the itinerary of those tours.
